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Searching Records in a Database

Playing the Field

Each of the records in the library catalog is divided into fields. The individual fields in a record make it possible to offer many search options.

Keyword is the most popular search option. A keyword search looks in every field for the words you enter. Author search looks for words just in the author field and ignores all the other fields; title search looks for words just in the title field. These searches allow you to be more specific.

IRIS 4-2 is an Information Literacy project developed with a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. Some content, images and activites were inspired by, and/or copied/adapted from TILT: The Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (no longer available). IRIS 4-2 is available for adaptation under the terms of the Creative Commons License.

This version of IRIS 4-2 includes modifications made by Linda Zuvich, Library IT Specialist, Everett Community College Library. An unmodified version may be found at http://www.clark.edu/Library/iris.